The mammoth teeth from Wrangel Island are up to 25 percent smaller than those of ordinary woolly mammoths, whose known fossils are all much older.
His son recognized one of the finds as a mammoth tooth.
In 1725, African slaves digging in a swamp uncovered mammoth teeth, which they recognized as originating from an elephant-like animal.
Other finds include the remains of a copper-age secondary burial (Lengyel culture), stone tools, and a mammoth tooth.
No more mammoth remains were found until 1952 when a partially fossilized mammoth tooth was discovered.
Mr. Clottes said the group had found an eight-inch-long prehistoric spear carved from a mammoth tooth.
They were teeth: tiny mammoth teeth, drawn from a very new calf, perhaps even an unborn.
Her necklace of mammoth teeth gleamed in the watery spring sun.
Instead of solid rock, there was a great, yawning gap, jutted by hanging chunks of stone that were much like mammoth teeth.
Thomas Jefferson sat down with Humboldt in Washington to discuss Indian languages and compare their collections of mammoth teeth.
